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Richard Weinberger
born 1990Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist
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Famous people · Moose Jaw, Saskatchewan
119 famous people come from Moose Jaw, Richard Weinberger the best known
Richard Weinberger is the best known, with articles in 15 languages. Second place goes to the curler Marcia Gudereit, third to Clark Gillies. The earliest on the list is J. Gordon Ross, born in 1891, and the youngest Delaney Aikens, born in 2000. Among the 92 towns in Saskatchewan with famous people on record, the town ranks 3rd.
Born here
119
confirmed by Wikipedia
Best known
Richard Weinberger
15 Wikipedia and sister-site articles
First
1891
J. Gordon Ross
Youngest
2000
Delaney Aikens
Most common field
Sports
65 people
What stands out about Moose Jaw’s famous people
★ What stands out · Through the years
When Moose Jaw’s famous people were born
The 1960s top the chart, with 16 births in the decade.
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Each dot is a person, stacked by the decade they were born.
The best known
Born in Moose Jaw
The three best known are all athletes.
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Clark Gillies
1954–2022Canadian ice hockey player
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Known for
What Moose Jaw is known for
Set against the usual town, athletes come out 1.4 times as common.
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Everyone else born in Moose Jaw
116 more, 62 of them athletes.
Art Linkletter
1912–2010Canadian-American radio and television personality
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Mike Mintenko
born 1975Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, Commonwealth Games silver medallist
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Phyllis Dewar
1916–1961Canadian swimmer, Olympic athlete, British Empire Games gold medallist
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Richard Swenson
born 1952Current leader of the Progressive Conservative Party of Saskatchewan, Member of the 21st and 22nd Legislative Assemblies of Saskatchewan.
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Walter Percival Wright
1909–1992Canadian politician in the Legislative Assembly of British Columbia
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Jerilynn Webster
born 1984Canadian Indigenous hip-hop and spoken word artist, emcee, beat-boxer, activist, cultural dancer, and youth educator
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Questions about famous people from Moose Jaw
Who is the most famous person from Moose Jaw?
The top name is Richard Weinberger (Canadian swimmer, Olympic bronze medallist), going by Wikipedia coverage. Next come Marcia Gudereit and Clark Gillies.
How many famous people were born in Moose Jaw?
Wikidata places 148 here in all, and those missing from the list lack a confirming article.
What is Moose Jaw known for?
55% here, set against 38% for Canadian towns.
Who is the earliest-born famous person from Moose Jaw?
The earliest is J. Gordon Ross, born in 1891, and the latest birth listed is 2000.
Who counts as from Moose Jaw?
What counts is a birth that Wikidata places inside Moose Jaw’s municipal boundary (Statistics Canada’s 2021 census subdivision), its hospitals and districts too, and that the person’s English or French Wikipedia article repeats. Adult performers, people known chiefly for crimes and those who only lived here are not on the list.
Why is someone missing?
Wikidata may give their birthplace only as Canada or a province, as a rural area or hamlet without a page here, or as another town; or their article may name a different place, or none. Only people both sources agree on are listed, and a fix on Wikidata or Wikipedia shows up here at the next refresh.
Birthplaces, descriptions, years, occupations and the count of Wikipedia and sister-site articles come from Wikidata (CC0). Each birthplace is checked against the person’s English Wikipedia article, or the French one where English says nothing or has no article; the articles are linked, never quoted. Wikidata’s Statistics Canada code, the place’s name or its point inside the 2021 census outline puts a birth in a town, and a birth given only as a split city stays on that city’s page. Fields are read from the description and occupations, and the list runs by number of articles. “The usual town” is everyone listed across Canadian towns. Portraits: each person’s Wikidata image, from Wikimedia Commons under the licence below (our copy, resized).
Photo credits (27)
- Richard Weinberger: Northwest, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Graeme Fish: Bjarteh, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Art Linkletter: NBC, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Chico Resch: New York Islanders / NHL, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Brent Gilchrist: Resolute, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Kevin Churko: Fscdesign, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Lorne Calvert: Daniel Paquet photo.paquet.ca, CC BY 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Randy Black: V-spectrum, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Scott Munroe: Pens Through My Lens, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Siera Bearchell: PNA, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Norm Johnson: TGC - Topps Gum Cards, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Pat Simmons: TracyFleuryFan, CC BY-SA 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Adam Hadwin: University of the Fraser Valley, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Briana Buckmaster: Mandilea16, CC BY 4.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Chris Turner: Sean Dennie, CC BY 2.5, Wikimedia Commons
- Frank Ashworth: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Reed Low: TheAHL, CC BY 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Ryan Meili: The original uploader was Headtale at English Wikipedia ., CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Angie Abdou: Buecom, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Jim Wiste: Quaker Oats, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Mark Smith: Chris Bolin, CC BY-SA 3.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Martin Zoborosky: Unknown author, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Phyllis Dewar: Canada's Sports Hall of Fame, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Rhett Gardner: Texas Stars Hockey, CC BY-SA 2.0, Wikimedia Commons
- Edward McCullough: House of Commons of Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Scoop Lewry: House of Commons of Canada, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
- Daniel Scott Tysdal: Jayne Tysdal, Public domain, Wikimedia Commons
Adapted from Statistics Canada (Census of Population 2021, population estimates 2025, 2021 census boundaries) under the Statistics Canada Open Licence; this does not constitute an endorsement by Statistics Canada. Neighbourhood names in some cities © OpenStreetMap contributors (ODbL).